
NEW YORK — A state police trooper and Marine Corps platoon commander killed in Iraq was remembered Friday at his parish church, just a few blocks from the Brooklyn street where he played stickball and soldier as a boy.
Family, friends and former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani turned out for the farewell to Capt. John J. McKenna IV, of Clifton Park, who was fatally shot Aug. 16 while on a foot patrol in Fallujah. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion 25th Marines, a reserve unit based in Albany.
The 30-year-old Brooklyn native was one of two members of the unit killed that day, along with Lance Corporal Michael D. Glover, of Garden City. Glover, a full-time law student at Pace University before his deployment, was to...